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A category including news related to increasing output and production of ports. Additional port equipment adding capacity; port expansion adding cargo capacity, shipping lines adding larger vessels and increased land traffic capacity by rail and road.

Spinelli Group gets more space for container storage at Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Genoa port has awarded a concession of additional 57,000 square metres to Spinelli Group in an area adjacent to...

Nantes.St-Nazaire considers cruise port development

Nantes.Saint-Nazaire (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Saint-Nazaire, the port city located at the mouth of the Loire estuary, is best known for its...

Reganosa receives first shipment of LNG from Yamal at Ferrol port

Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Reganosa, the Spanish energy company, has received its first shipment of liquified natural gas (LNG) from...

Cádiz port extends bulk storage area in 2017

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Cádiz port significantly increased its area for the storage of bulk last year. In the basin of La...

CIPE committee reviews Port Hub of Ravenna 2017 project

Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Regional Councilor for Infrastructures and Transport, Raffaele Donini, said that it is a significant step...

Venice hosts EU “Ursa Major neo” transport event

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – On December 14-15, 2017, Venice port hosted the two days of “Ursa Major neo” European Union...

Expression of interest for construction of LNG bunkering facility in Naples port

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centrale (AdSP – Central Tyrrhenian Sea Port...

Project for installation of new floating cistern by COSCO starts in Piraeus port

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 7, 2018 – New data on the docking of vessels for shipbuilding and repairs will be made by the installation of the...

Reganosa supplies first European passenger train powered by LNG from Ferrol port terminal

Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) January 7, 2018 – The first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has just been delivered by means of a truck to Asturias, a...

Civitavecchia port official to attend road promotion event

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – A press conference is scheduled for Thursday 11 January 2018, entitled “2017 one year on the...

Sardinia’s Porto Torres sees call for investment

Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – Porto Torres has experienced a fall in traffic, security problems and poor services for...

Fincantieri looks for more space in Ancona port

Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – Fincantieri, the Trieste-based shipbuilder, has requested €40 million ($48.1 million) in state aid to...

Marseille-HAROPA rail links to improve cargo transport times

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – The concerted efforts of the two major French seaports have made it possible to achieve and implement...

Mykolaiv port to build parking facility for heavy transport vehicles

Mykolaiv, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – In order to solve the problem of overloading city streets with trucks, Mykolayiv port has initiated...

Valencia port lags behind Barcelona in terms of logistics space

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – While the president of the Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia), Aurelio Martínez,...

Cádiz port to open new container terminal in 2020

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) president José Luis Blanco Romero has...

Eurogate increases crane capacity in Limassol port

Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Eurogate, the container terminal operator, is to install an additional seven container gantry cranes, in...

DP World Group start operations in Ukraine

Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – P&O Maritime, a company owned by port operator DP World Group, started to operate in Ukraine in...

Port Authority of Bilbao summarises its ongoing activities

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 4, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (Port Authority of Bilbao) currently has the following works in...

Cádiz port to invest €21.2 million in 2018

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) plans to invest €21.16 million ($25.43...

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